Seam for sewed articles.



E. B. ALLEN. SEAM FOR SEWED ARTICLES.

APPLIGATION FILED FEB.26', 1914.

1,115,649. 1 Patented Nov.3,1914.

WITNESSES:

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. body-fabric and the strap along the outer which UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD .B. ALLEN, or BR-IDGEPOBT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR To THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 11 CORPORATION on NEW JERSEY.

SEAM FOR SEWED ARTICLES.

Application filed February 26, 1914. Serial No. 821,107.

Be it known that I, EDWARDJB. ALL N, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, in thecounty of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Seams for Sewed Articles, ofiwhich the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention .has for itsobject to provide means for securing 'to a body-fabric a tag or label suitably for serving as a strap or hanger. Such tags or labels are commonly formed of sections of a continuous selvage edged'tape with the trademark or other label material woven therein at intervals, the sections being cut successively from the tape at division marks woven therein. In fastening these tape sections or straps to the body-fabric it has been customary heretofore to turn under the raw edged extremities and secure the same in position by transverse lines of stitching penetrating the body and turned-in end portions of the tape-sections as well as the-body-fabric.

According to the present improvement, the tape-section or strap is secured upon the body-fabric flat with its raw edged extremities exposed, these extremities being embraced each by an overseam penetrating the body-fabric only along one edge and both edge, whereby the raw edges are covered and concealed and the strap is attached more or less firmly to the body-fabric, and a transverse straightaway fastening seam is added parts of the strap intermediate the straightaway stitch seam being unsecured for admission of a clothes hook or garment supporting peg. Preferably a connecting stitch lengthwise of the strap is made between the parallel lines of overseam and straightaway stitches, whereby they may be formed of continuous threads of which the initial and final ends are at one edge only of the strap.

The invention will be understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, in

Figure 1 is a face view of a body-fabricwith a label or strap applied thereto in accordance with the present invention, and Fig. 2 is a perspective view upon an enlarged scale of one end portion of the same partly in section to expose the stitches more fully.

To "the body-fabric a is applied the overly ng section of tape or label-piece I) having parallel selvage edges 1 and 2 and raw edged extremities 3 and 4. To the end marginal portions of the label-piece b are applied the covering overseam stitches 5 shown'herein composed of upper and lower threads interlocked preferably Within the fabric in a -manner well-known, these stitches extending through only the body-fabric beyond the end of the label-strip at one side of the Patented Nov. 3, 1914, I

overseam and through both the label-strip and'the body-fabric at the opposite side of the overseam. At the completed end of the overseam a single straightaway stitch 6 is made near and parallel with the edge 2, and connected with the same is the line of straightaway fastening stitches 7 extending across the label-piece near and parallel with the overseam.

As will be observed by reference to Fig. 2 the threads composing the overseam, the intermediate stitch and the straightaway fastening stitches at each end of the label-piece are continuous, and the stitching as thus described forms a composite seam with three component elements. The said figure represents two superposed plies of body-fabric, but the second ply is not material to the present improvement,

Having thus set forth the nature -.of the invention, what I claim herein is 1. The combination with a body-fabric, of

1 oversea-ms and penetrating both fabrics.

2. The combination with a body-fabric, of a superposed ply of fabric having parallel selvage side edges and raw edges at the ends, and means for securing the same together at the ends, each comprising a line of covering overseam stitches embracing the raw edges and penetrating the body-fabric only at one side and both fabrics at the other side. of the overseam, and a line of straightaway stitches connected With said overseam by continuous stitching threads and disposed adjacent and parallel with but spaced from the overseam and penetratingboth fabrics.

3. The combination with a body-fabric, of a superposed ply of fabric having parallel selvage side edges and raw edges at the ends, and means for securing the same together at the ends, eachcomprising a line of covering overseam stitches embracing the raw .edges' and penetrating the body-fabric only at one side and both fabrics at the other side of the overseam, a connected intermediate straight away stitch penetrating both .fabrics and disposed transversely of said overseam, and 15 a line of straightaway stitches connected With said intermediate stitch and disposed parallel with and spaced from said overseam and penetrating both fabrics.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my 20 name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

EDWARD B'. ALLEN.

Witnesses N. H. HOYT, STANLEY N. SMrrH 

